Device for applying bands to bales.



PATBNTED AUG. 21, 1906. J. E. ARMSTRONG & D. E. EDDLEMAN. DEVICE FOR APPLYING BANDS T0 BALBS.

ArPLIoATxon FILED FEB. 23.14903.

mm .mak QN WN QN mmv N NN JAMES E. ARMSTRONG TEXAS, ASSIGNORS ERFORD, TEXAS.

DEVICE AND DUDLEY E. EDDLEMAN, OF WEATHERFORD, OF ON E-FOURTH flO GEORGE C. JONES, OF VVEATI'I- FOR APPLYING BANDS TO BALES.

Specification o1" Letters Iatent.

Fatented Aug. 21, 1906.

Application filed February 23,1906. Serial No. 302,560.

To LLM whom it may concern Be it known that we, JAMES E. ARMSTRONG and DUDLEY E. EDDLEMAN, citizens of the United States, residing at Weatherford, in the county of Parker and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Device for Applying Bands to Bales, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices for a plying bands to bales of various kinds, ang has for its object to improve the construction and increase the efficiency of devices of this character.

With these and other objects in view, which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a' part of this speciiication, and in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, is illustrated the preferred form of the embodiment of the invention capable of carrying the same into practical operation.

Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the improved device. Fig. 3 is a section, enlarged, on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

The improved device com rises a base member 10, having at one en a lateral extension 11 and at the other end a laterallyextending plate 12, the base member and its extension and plate for bearing upon the bale to which the band is to be applied and indicated at 13.

Extending from the base member l is a standard 14, and pivoted at 15 to the standard is a lever 16, the pivot being disposed near one end of the lever. Pivoted at 17 18 to the lever 16 are arms 19 20, the pivotal points being disposed at opposite sides of the pivotal point l5. The arms l.) 20 extend in opposite directions and are extended laterally at 2l 22 at their free ends and provided with' clamping cam-lovers 23 24, pivoted at 26 to the arms and bearing upon the projections 21 22, the bearing-faces of the cams being serrated, as shown, to cause them to grip the band firmly when compressed thereon. The shorter end of the lever 16 is forked and bears upon opposite sides of the arm 20, and the latter is supported by a brace 27, connected at the ends to the pivots 18 and 26,

respectively, of the arm 20 and clamp-lever 24. The longer portion of the opi-ratinglever 16 is provided with a longitudinal slot 28, in which the arm 19 sw ings, the sides of the slot thus bearing against the arm and preventing displacement by sidc strains. The lever 16 may be of any required length and other parts of any required size to apply bands of any size or of any material to bales of any size or of any material or product.

In applying the bands the base member 1() is disposed upon the bale with the anvilplate 12 at the point where. the tie or other fastenin means is to be applied. The lever 16, with its attached clamps, is then distendcd, as shown by full lines in Fig. l, and the ends of the band (represented at 3U) connected to the clamp members with sufficient surplus band material extendin in advance of the clamping means to cnab e the ties to be applied. 'lhe lever 16 is then thrown over into the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. l, which will bring the clamping members adjacent to the opposite ends of the plate 12, with the surplus portions of the band overlapping above the anvil-plate 12 in position to receive the tie device 33 and the latter srcured by the blow of a hammer or other implement. rIn the meantime the operation of the device has laced one portion of the band over the littoral projection 1], which presses the latter against. the body of the bale, and thus assists in holding the base member and its attachments in position. By this simple means bands of any character may be quickly applied to bales of any size or containing any required commodity or product, The device will be very useful in applying new bands to replace broken ones. A chain 3l is attached at 34 to the base` member 10 and adapted to be engaged with a pin 32 on the lever I6 by one of its links when the lever is moved into its` wire-stretching position, as in dotted lines in Fig. l, to hold the wirerips in position until thc tying action is competed.

Havin thus described the invention, what is claime ish 1. In a device of the class described, a base member havin spaced lateral projections and an interme iate standard, an operatinglever pivoted relatively near one end to said standard, an arm swinging from said lever at IOO one side of its pivot and with e wire-elmnping ineens at its free end und operating over one of said lateral irojeetions, and en arn'i swinging 'from seid lever at the other side of its pivot and havingr si wire-clamping ineens at its free md :ind operating over the other lateral projeetion.

2. In a deviee of the elass described, a` hase member having spaced lateral projections and an intermediate standard, an operatinglever pivoted relatively near one end to said standardy u relatively short arm swinging from said lever et one side of its ivot and with a wire-elamping means et its tree end, a relatively long arln swinging from said lever at the other side of its pivot and having a l l 1 l l wire-eleinping ineens at its 'free end, whorelrxT when seid lever is aetueted the end portions of the wires will be overlapped above one ol' said lateral projeetions in position l'or the said projection to be utilized us an anvil to receive the impact of the blow imparted to the bale-tie.

ln testimony that we eleini the foregoingn es our own we have hereto all'ixed our signutures in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES E. AltllilS'lRONG. DUDIJEY E. EDDLEMAN.

Witnesses:

W. B. VKIRKPA'rRIeK, D, L. SEXToN. 

